Re: why should $_SESSION be slower than other arrays?

In any case, it would appear the comments in the session section of the online docs are wrong or just out of date, and I don't need to worry about it. I'll go ahead and add a comment to that effect on the ref.session page. l8r Aaron --- Marek Kilimajer <lists@kilimajer.net> wrote: > Chris Dowell wrote: > > Entirely off the top of my head, I would imagine it has to do with > the > > scope of the variables in question. > > > > When assigning a value to a variable, there must be some time spent > > > resolving the scope in which that variable is valid, to see if the > new > > value overwrites any existing value and to ensure that it is > accessible > > from the correct places. As a superglobal, however, $_SESSION has a > very > > specific and unchanging scope. If I were Zeev or Andi, I'd have > added a > > little optimisation into ZE to check for trivial cases such as this > and > > shortcut the tedious scoping. > > > > I could be wrong, but this seems to be the most obvious > explanation. Has > > anyone tried this with any other superglobals like $_POST or > $_SERVER? > > Just tried it, $_SESSION is certainly faster then $_POST, $_GET and > $_SERVER: > > Session var: 0.380021095276 > GET var: 0.50522685051 > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail